What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.

Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion there is likely to be bad government which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

You sell yourself. The part that I sell is the creature. The adorable part.

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

When you have cleared all of your clutter, you can be of greater service to those around you.

"What would you do if I kissed you right now?" I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. "I would kiss you back."

Yeah, I have a tough-girl image.